Just when she was about to think about how to lose weight, a maid who looked very ordinary but well-dressed came out, opened the door curtain and invited her in. She said, "Miss Sixth is here."
After hearing her voice, Ling Xiao couldn't help but glance at her. Maybe this maid was just pretty, but her voice was extremely sweet, like the first cry of an oriole. It sounded really nice to her, and she treated Ling Xiao very respectfully.
From this point, it can be seen that the servants in this family do not dare to treat the original owner openly. This is different from what Ling Xiao thought, because as a person, we generally seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and the same is true for slaves, otherwise the original owner will not be around
Those slaves ran away one by one?
Ordinarily, the masters of the family want to separate themselves from her, so the original owner who follows the master and has no one to protect her should have a more difficult life, and will receive some slights in the open and secret, but judging from the whole behavior of the little girl
, the servant still dared not make any small move to the original owner in public.
So what does this mean? One possibility is that the housewife of this family is quite skillful, and none of the slaves dare to cause trouble. Another possibility is that the original owner has a backer behind him, so what is that possibility? I feel like the latter possibility
Relatively tall, Ling Xiao thought about it and stepped on his short legs to enter the room.
Looking at the threshold in front of me, rub it! Why do you need such a high threshold? If you are not careful, you will stumble. It is too unfriendly to children. The small courtyard was lower before, and the threshold of the main house is even higher. It must be raised high.
leg.
Ling Xiao had to raise her legs to enter the room. She was really unhappy and began to curse in her heart. The threshold made her feel like she was doing a hurdle sport.
After waiting to enter, she found that the living room in the upper room was full of good things, some of which were antiques, and furniture made of rosewood. Wow! For rich people, as expected, the life of the original owner was very shabby.
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But she didn't pay much attention to these things. She focused more on the women in the room. Among them, sitting in seat C was a very noble old lady who looked about forty years old.
The scenery is very good.
According to memory, this was the original owner's grandmother. In ancient times, a woman around thirty years old would become a grandmother, so this woman who looked about forty years old was an old woman.
The smile on her grandmother's face suddenly disappeared when she saw Ling Xiao. She glanced at her granddaughter and looked at Ling Xiao with a bit of repulsion and boredom in her eyes, as if this was not her granddaughter, but a stinky piece of shit.
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After Ling Xiao noticed it, he felt his hands were itchy, and he felt like he wanted to hit someone. What did this mean? Why did the original owner have to bear this kind of insult? Was this the original owner's grandmother? Or was he someone who wanted to hurt the original owner?
After being used to being a vigorous and resolute monk, she felt annoyed when she saw this kind of fighting atmosphere in the house. Is there any need to fight? People are not fighting men! Isn’t it nice to study science well? She didn’t bother to pay attention to these people at all.
I don't know how much I weigh.
In order to prevent herself from falling off the horse, she still went to the big bosses in the room according to the memory of the original owner. She was only a four-year-old child and could not understand the thoughts of adults at all. She just did her own thing.
In addition to the grandmother, there were also the original owner's mother and aunts, all of whom wore masks and didn't even smile. Ling Xiao was ignored by everyone, as if she was just a ball of colorless and odorless air.
And the sisters who met just now in twos and threes also pretended not to see her. Ling Xiao couldn't help but feel sorry for the original owner. It was really hurtful to be ignored again and again. She really wanted to know what was going on?
After Ling Xiao finished her salute, her grandmother did not want to praise her granddaughter, but said very plainly: "Xiao Liu is not young anymore. When she reaches five years old, someone will teach her how to recite the female commandments.
You must obey Master and go down." He raised his hands as he spoke, as if he was eager to let Ling Xiao leave.
Ling Xiao acted dumbly like the original owner and was led away. At this moment, her mind was flashing, Damn! Female commandments! Who likes to recite female commandments? Of course, Ling Xiao didn't show that she didn't like it. After all, this is ancient times.
A standard reading book for women from official families.
Naturally, Ling Xiao didn't want to learn any female commandments. She still remembered that the female commandments were divided into seven chapters: humility, husband and wife, respect and prudence, women's behavior, concentration, Qu Cong and uncles and sisters. After women learn it, it will only make their bones soft.
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The reason why I say this is because there are many words in the Women's Commandments that elevate the status of men and belittle women: For example, there is a sentence in the "Couple" chapter: "If the husband does not control his wife, his dignity will be lost; if the woman does not serve her husband, her moral principles will be lost."
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If this sentence is expressed in plain language: Between husband and wife, if the husband cannot subdue his wife, then he has no ability of his own; and if the wife does not cater to her husband at all times and obey her husband, then it is treason. (
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There was also a sentence in the article dedicated to concentration that made Ling Xiao sneer even more. That sentence was: "The husband has the obligation to remarry, and the wife has no two suitable articles." Translated: If a man dies, his wife must marry him.
Marry another one, but if the woman is a woman, she must not remarry. She must remain a widow and guard her body for her dead husband.
When Ling Xiao saw this sentence, he felt that there was something wrong with the person who wrote the women's commandment. It was simply a double standard. Why did men and women have completely different consequences for the same death of the other half? One must remarry, and the other must keep the law.
Women and men are both human beings! Why are they treated differently because of gender issues? In fact, whether men remarry or women remarry should be their own business, rather than requiring some female commandments to stipulate it. It is simply too much
thing.
She once studied the so-called female commandments in a certain world. After reciting them, she just wanted to throw this thing into the brazier. It was a naked propaganda that men were superior to women.
Don't say that there is still a good side in it, which is worthy of praise. In fact, Ling Xiao feels that it is the good side that makes it more hidden. Instilling this kind of thing every day in women who have started to read and read is completely distorting the three aspects of women.
Viewed, it is easier to abuse women. Human moral standards have long been good, so why dig for gold from the garbage dump?
She doesn't care about women's commandments at all now. She's not stupid anyway, so why put a yoke on herself as a virtuous and virtuous person? When she was being sent away by the hand, she specifically stared at their feet because she noticed something.
Something, her mind was flashing: I'm going! It's a living three-inch golden lotus! Three-inch golden lotus, three-inch golden lotus!
She discovered the problem when she was saluting. Every one of the women sitting there were the kind of three-inch golden lotus. Damn! The pointed toes of shoes were exposed under the skirt, which reminded Ling Xiao that she had seen women when she was a child.
My compatriots wore a kind of shoe. For a while, a kind of leather shoe with a pointed toe was particularly popular. It was so sharp that it could be used as a weapon.
Of course, there is still a disadvantage of those shoes, that is, the feet look particularly big. Because the pointed toes are too long, the feet wearing the shoes appear to be larger. Later, women's shoes were no longer so pointy.
Become a small pointed tip.
But now when these women wearing bow shoes looked carefully, they saw small pointed toes peeking out from under their skirts. They were only three inches long. How big must these ankles be? For some reason, Ling Xiao inexplicably thought of Sister-in-law Yang, and naturally thought of the two points of a compass.
Pointed feet, this association made her want to laugh.
Holding back her laughter, she raised her feet again and left. The corners of her mouth were slightly raised. I heard that the three-inch golden lotus is not very easy to wash feet. This is because the feet need to be wrapped in foot wraps, which is more time-consuming, so they don't wash their feet frequently.
, can you not sweat just by covering it in a piece of cloth? Of course it stinks. I remember a certain man who loved his little feet in the Republic of China liked to smell the smell of his little feet.
Haha! Thinking back to this, Ling Xiao secretly smiled, but on the surface she was very calm. After all, she could control her expression. It was good that her face was original and she would not lose control of her expression.
It’s just that she once again felt that life for women living in this era was really difficult. She couldn’t even laugh because she had to smile without showing her teeth. Otherwise, a woman who smiles with toothy teeth would be regarded as a frivolous woman. Really
ill!
Of course, here comes the scariest question. This body is about to have its feet bound, right? Oh my God! Just imagining it, I feel some pain in my bones. I forcibly bend all the toes except the thumb with cloth strips.
As a result, the entire foot cannot grow and can only grow to three inches.
Damn it! Ling Xiao couldn't help but want to curse, what the hell is going on? In the previous ancient society, although women were also bound by the rules of feudal ethics, but they didn't have any small feet, what should I do?
Let her bind her feet obediently? Dream on! Ling Xiao felt that she was a little hopeless. This task was a bit deceptive, and she had to have her feet bound. Who wants this bad habit? Ling Xiao didn't want it anyway.
Also, she knows that her own aesthetics are completely different from the aesthetics of this era. In her opinion, a pair of natural feet is very beautiful. With natural feet, you can run and do many things.
But in this era, there is a pair of natural feet, but the golden lotus, which is the representative of the city's ugliness, is very popular. Beauty looks at the feet, not the face. Ha! It is really a sick aesthetic concept, which regards the destruction of women as beauty.
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Ling Xiao remembered that in the Song Dynasty, the female compatriots' feet were not bound for the three-inch golden lotus, but they were held up with strips of cloth to stop the feet from growing too big, but the Jedi had not yet bent their toes to the soles of their feet.
It also does not require women's feet to be only three inches long. Although it hurts a little when it is wrapped, it is not painful enough to kill.
Of course, there was some trend at that time: small feet look good, and this aesthetic gradually became popular and recognized as good, so that women from top to bottom of the entire class began to think about how to call themselves smaller.
It is said that a woman who specialized in the skin and flesh business wanted to be popular, so she started to be unconventional. In order to stand out among the fans, she began to study how to wrap her feet smaller, which was the prototype of the three-inch golden lotus.
Later, this kind of dress of a promiscuous woman was imitated by some virtuous women, and more and more people began to agree with this practice of destroying their own feet. It can be said that it was gradually recognized by people.
In fact, for a long time, some of the makeup and clothing of prostitutes have been imitated by women from good families. After all, some men are not willing to give money to their married wives, but they are willing to reward prostitutes.
This led to girls from good families imitating some of the things of prostitutes in order to win back their husbands' attention. Therefore, these very slender little feet gradually began to spread to girls from good families.
Ling Xiao looked at the Three-Inch Golden Lotus and thought for a while. If it had reached this point, it would only be so popular in the Ming Dynasty. As for why it was not Manchu or Yuanmeng, it was completely different from the clothing and hair.
Generally speaking, three-inch feet need to be wrapped around the age of five or six before they can be wrapped with the three-inch golden lotus that is highly praised by literati and doctors. Now the original owner is four years old and feels that it is too small, but I don't know when.
It was arranged.
Calculating my body, I don't have many good days. From the beginning of foot binding, my feet were forced to be wrapped in cloth, because my feet would be very painful when I was wearing them, and I basically couldn't get out of bed.
Even in order to prevent the little girl from being killed secretly, the foot-binding cloth will be sewn on and will not be taken off until the feet are washed. Thinking of this scene, Ling Xiao couldn't help but shudder. What a miserable woman, what else can she do after her feet are wrapped?
Walk?
Ling Xiao remembered that some books said that women with bound feet would be called Miss Bao, because they could not walk at all after their feet were bound. Girls from official families were even more frail, so it was strange that they could walk. No wonder women died more during pregnancy and childbirth.
On the one hand, she got married too early, her mother's body is not fully developed, and on the other hand, she barely walks. How can she have the energy to give birth to a child?
She remembered that she had read a martial arts novel written by an author in the early years. The author didn't know what he thought. All the women in the book were three-inch golden lotuses. This was basically impossible to exist.
The feet wrapped in three-inch golden lotus are basically disabled, but you still want to jump up and down and become a martial arts master? Ling Xiao simply doesn't believe that it is good if the three-inch golden lotus can walk normally.
You must know that the smaller the force-bearing area, the greater the pressure it will bear. The three-inch golden lotus cannot bear the fight. When Ling Xiao thought of this, he felt that he had no intention of turning himself into a cripple.
But she still has to think about the original owner? This idea makes her feel a little embarrassed, because the owner of this body will come back sooner or later, which makes her feel very ugly.
After all, today's aesthetics are distorted. It doesn't matter if your face is not beautiful in the eyes of everyone. As long as your feet are wrapped well, you are a great beauty. For a talented woman, no matter how good her face is, it is useless, so she has to think about how to face it.
Do you think of sacrificing yourself for the original owner? After all, the original owner still lives in this world.
After thinking about it for a while, Ling Xiao had to admit that she couldn't go against her true intention and bound her feet for the sake of the original owner. She couldn't be so great, and she didn't want the original owner to continue his previous lifestyle. She would wait and see.
After thinking clearly, she returned to the original small courtyard and seemed to be sitting there in a daze. In fact, she was looking at the jade slips, wanting to know more about cultivation and study science and technology. She tried her best to behave like the original owner.